MITRE shares 2025’s top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses
MITRE has shared this year’s top 25 list of the most dangerous software weaknesses behind over 39,000 security vulnerabilities disclosed between June 2024 and June 2025. The list was released in cooperation with the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which manage and sponsor the […]
MKVCinemas streaming piracy service with 142M visits shuts down
An anti-piracy coalition has dismantled one of India’s most popular streaming piracy services, which has provided free access to movies and TV shows to millions over the past two years. Backed by over 50 major television networks and film studios, including Disney, Warner Bros, Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures, and Universal Pictures, the Alliance for Creativity […]
Brave browser starts testing agentic AI mode for automated tasks
Brave has introduced a new AI browsing feature that leverages Leo, its privacy-respecting AI assistant, to perform automated tasks for the user. Intended to assist with tasks such as autonomous web research, product comparison, promo-code discovery, and news summarization, the feature is currently in its testing phase and accessible through the Brave Nightly version. The […]
Hackers exploit Gladinet CentreStack cryptographic flaw in RCE attacks
Hackers are exploiting a new, undocumented vulnerability in the implementation of the cryptographic algorithm present in Gladinet’s CentreStack and Triofox products for secure remote file access and sharing. By leveraging the security issue, the attackers can obtain hardcoded cryptographic keys and achieve remote code execution, researchers warn. Although the new cryptographic vulnerability does not have an […]
Notepad++ fixes flaw that let attackers push malicious update files
Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of legitimate update packages. The first signs of this issue appeared in a Notepad++ community forum topic, where a user reported that Notepad++’s update tool, GUP.exe (WinGUp), spawned […]
Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file
A stealthy campaign with 19 extensions on the VSCode Marketplace has been active since February, targeting developers with malware hidden inside dependency folders. The malicious activity was uncovered recently, and security researchers found that the operator used a malicious file posing as a .PNG image. The VSCode Market is Microsoft’s official extensions portal for the widely used […]
UK fines LastPass over 2022 data breach impacting 1.6 million users
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined the LastPass password management firm £1.2 million for failing to implement security measures that allowed an attacker to steal personal information and encrypted password vaults belonging to up to 1.6 million UK users in a 2022 breach. According to the ICO, the incident stemmed from two interconnected breaches […]
Microsoft bounty program now includes any flaw impacting its services
Microsoft now pays security researchers for finding critical vulnerabilities in any of its online services, regardless of whether the code was written by Microsoft or a third party. This policy shift was announced at Black Hat Europe on Wednesday by Tom Gallagher, vice president of engineering at Microsoft Security Response Center. As Gallagher explained, attackers don’t distinguish between Microsoft […]
New ConsentFix attack hijacks Microsoft accounts via Azure CLI
A new variation of the ClickFix attack dubbed ‘ConsentFix’ abuses the Azure CLI OAuth app to hijack Microsoft accounts without the need for a password or to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) verifications. A ClickFix attack is a social engineering technique that attempts to trick users into running commands on their computer to install malware or steal data. […]
Hackers exploit unpatched Gogs zero-day to breach 700 servers
An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, has enabled attackers to gain remote code execution on Internet-facing instances and compromise hundreds of servers. Written in Go and designed as an alternative to GitLab or GitHub Enterprise, Gogs is also often exposed online for remote collaboration. CVE-2025-8110, the Gogs RCE vulnerability exploited in these attacks, stems […]